David Goodrum

The Oregon Poetry Association in partnership with The Arts Center of Corvallis is celebrating national poetry month with a special poetry night on Thursday, April 17th, 2025, 5:30- 7:30p, featuring these MFA poets from Oregon State University: Elyssa Cook, Anmol Priya Desai, Cheyenne Hollowell, Monique Lanier, Sam Olson, and Tor Strand. You can find out

A new poetry contest opens on March 10 through April 14th for OPA members only in celebration of National Poetry Month. The contest has been sponsored by an anonymous donor. Enter one poem, any style, any subject, any form, two page maximum. No submission fee. https://opa.submittable.com/ Winners will be announced by mid-May 2025, and be

The OPA Youth Poetry Contest opened on Sunday through May 2nd! Contest co-chairs (and board members) Julia Gaskill and Ty Brack are hoping you will encourage your kids and/or grandkids, other K-12 students, parents, teachers, librarians, and educators… anyone you know who could use or pass along some encouragement to submit poems by young writers

In the spirit of posting more frequently this year… In early 2025, the OPA board established several key activities for the year: The 25th Cascadia Youth Poetry Contest and its accompanying anthology. The contest will be open March 2nd to May 2nd. Publication of the 29th Verseweavers anthology featuring winning verse from 2024 contests, to